Most Twitter users might be shocked if they suddenly received hundreds of angry messages from Canadians they didn’t know, but that’s nothing new for Glenn Rogers.

Rogers (the man) bore the brunt of the anger when Rogers (the wireless company) experienced a nationwide outage for voice and text services Wednesday night, tweeting to his own followers that “the wrath of a thousand Canadians is a mighty sight.”

The reason for the misdirected outrage is Rogers’ Twitter username @Rogers, which he snapped up in 2007 before the Canadians company could. (The telecom uses @RogersHelps.) Although he says he likes having such a short handle on the social network, Rogers says angry tweets from irate customers is just a regular part of his day.

“Yes, this is a daily occurrence, though this past outage has been by far the largest volume of anger,” he told Canada.com in an interview Thursday.

To make matters worse, Rogers isn’t even in Canada. The Australian-born entrepreneur lives in Brooklyn, so the angry Canadians in his feed are even stranger since they alert him whenever the wireless company has problems with its network.

“I think telcos have a thankless job, I don’t think it’s just Rogers,” he said. “Though I do think they could do a better job of their customer support, there’s a great opportunity here that they seem happy to ignore.”

The Canadian wireless company did reach out to him once about his Twitter name, but only asked him to consider donating it to the multibillion-dollar media and telecommunications company — an offer he declined.

Short and simple Twitter usernames are some of the most valuable online properties around, and even though the social network discourages people from selling handles, it still happens. For example, CNN paid big bucks to acquire the @cnnbrk account from a fan who had beaten them to the punch in tweeting out breaking news on the cable network.

Hey @rogers I pay an exorbitant amount for a working cellphone service. A one day discount is not sufficient.

Some companies have even conducted hostile takeovers of the usernames they want, like when JP Morgan seized the @Chase username from Chase Giunta of Dallas, Texas, after the financial firm lodged a dubious trademark complaint with Twitter.

Rogers (the man) did not say what price might convince him to sell his very valuable handle, but he said he wouldn’t simply hand it over to Rogers (the company) because they asked. Besides, it might be too much fun to watch Canadians get worked up over their wireless service.